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Partnerships
Worldwide University Program | Design contests | Leadership University | Southwest Academy of Nanoelectronics | Texas Analog Center of Excellence
TI drives and enables innovation by collaborating with universities, associations and leading high-tech companies that are often our own customers.
Our technologists participate in industry forums, standards committees, educational committees, technical conferences and university research roadmap development reviews, among other activities. Together, we evaluate product performance and capacity to meet product requirements, regulations and technological shifts, as well as other challenges and opportunities.
Worldwide University Program
For nearly 30 years, TI has forged relationships with universities that span the globe through our Worldwide University Program, which is designed to:
- Provide university educators, researchers, and undergraduate and graduate students with the latest analog and embedded processing hardware and software to inspire innovation and help them effectively demonstrate the potential of their ideas.
- Partner with educators to integrate TI technology into course curricula for hands-on learning, and to help students complete design and research projects that will hone their skills and abilities.
- Increase the knowledge base of future engineers so they understand TI technology and develop the skills needed to tackle tomorrow’s most challenging problems. In time, we benefit whether these students come to work for us or if they become our customers through other business ventures.
In more than 3,000 labs in hundreds of universities worldwide, TI is reaching more than 150,000 undergraduate and graduate students. We provide in-kind or discounted integrated circuits, embedded processors, microcontrollers, teaching materials/textbooks, development tools, and equipment and training.
These contributions drive the development of innovative breakthrough products – from new gaming systems to biomedical electronics, mechanical/mechatronics, imaging and video applications, and products that help reduce society’s environmental footprint. They also enable the next generation of engineering students to graduate with even more industry-relevant skills by working on the same development platforms used by TI customers today.
Design contests
Since the 1990s, TI has sponsored global design contests for undergraduate engineering students, particularly in their senior year. This gives our company the opportunity to directly engage with young and creative engineers, and identify future talent. It also gives students experience working with TI products to develop creative solutions and complements their coursework to build the skills they need.
While competitions are administered differently in various regions, they have common goals. In China, for example, TI encourages innovation around particular embedded processing platforms, and sponsors sections of a national design competition in which thousands of students use many of our analog and microcontroller chips.
In the U.S., we launched our TI Analog Design Contest in 2008 to encourage students to reach a higher level of engineering analysis, originality, quality and creativity in designs that feature TI analog integrated circuits. We have since expanded the contest to students in the U.S., Canada, Europe and India. Regional contests also are held in China and other parts of Asia.
TI awards cash prizes annually to local contest winners. Finalists then go on to compete at the national or international level. In North America, finalists attend the Engibous Summit in Dallas, home of our headquarters. That winner takes home the $10,000 Engibous Prize. Similar prizes are awarded in other regions.
Leadership University
TI launched the Leadership University Program in 1999 to develop future engineering talent, advance research innovation, and increase cooperation between universities and local industries. Top analog and embedded processing technologists at premier universities worldwide participate.
University professors lead TI and their colleagues in academia in a number of areas including signal processing, low-power circuit development, microelectromechanical systems applications, algorithm advancement and education development. The top graduate students working with these programs go on to lead TI, academia and industry in breakthrough developments.
To date, we have provided these universities with more than $13 million in funding, which supports research programs as well as curriculum development in digital signal processing, microcontrollers, analog and mixed-signal systems. As a result, thousands of engineers have graduated with integrated and system design expertise.
Participating universities, along with their location and year of inception, include:
Southwest Academy of Nanoelectronics
TI committed $5 million in 2007 to help endow faculty positions at the University of Texas (UT) at Dallas, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Texas at Arlington to help launch the Southwest Academy of Nanoelectronics (SWAN). SWAN is a collaboration that includes the UT system, the state of Texas, the Semiconductor Research Corporation and other industry partners.
SWAN’s goal is to advance nanoelectronics education, research and commercialization. Over a five-year commitment period, TI’s $5 million donation was matched by $25 million from the other participants.
Texas Analog Center of Excellence (TxACE)
Texas Governor Rick Perry created TxACE in 2008 in response to the rapidly growing analog integrated circuit market. TI, the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Global Research Collaboration, the University of Texas System and the State of Texas Emerging Technology Fund funded the creation of a $16 million analog design research center.
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